Napoleonic war fiction with a Dragon Air Force: Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels layer real history with fantasy, sending Captain Will Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire against Napoleon's broadsides. Five volumes appear here, and the debut, Temeraire (9.0), towers over the rest; the sequels settle into a solid 7-to-8 band as the war carries the pair to Africa in Empire of Ivory (8.0) and to England's own doorstep in Victory of Eagles (7.3).
Start with the debut, which earns the Anne McCaffrey comparison the later blurbs lean on: an alternate Napoleonic era where dragons are real, fully worked out rather than decorative. The series' heart is the friendship between man and dragon, and even the mid-range entries (Black Powder War, Crucible of Gold) coast agreeably on that bond.
The Temeraire franchise spans 5 books in the CrossBinge catalog.
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- Naomi Novik (Author)